Category Archives: OS X
Setting up Perforce Helix Core Service on OS X High Sierra
Here is a guide about how to start Perforce Helix Core as a global daemon on OS X High Sierra, running under a separate user called perforce. By the nature of this guide, some of it applies directly to my own system; readers are expected to identify those instances and change appropriately.
First, we download the p4d and p4 executable files. Some people may prefer the visual client, but this guide is focused on the command line.
Then we install the binaries into /usr/local/sbin
and /usr/local/bin
, respectively.
Install the server binary.
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/sbin sudo cp p4d /usr/local/sbin sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local/sbin/p4d sudo chmod 555 /usr/local/sbin/p4d
And install the client binary.
sudo mkdir -p /usrl/local/bin sudo cp p4 /usr/local/bin/ sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local/bin/p4 sudo chmod 555 /usr/local/bin/p4
We’ll create a group and user called perforce, and store the version control database in /usr/local/var/perforce
with the log in /usr/local/var/log/p4d.log
.
Here I’ve carefully chosen the unique id 268
for both the group and user because it’s free on my system. To see all group ids in use on a system, this one liner can be used,
for f in `dscl . -list /Groups`; do dscl . -read /Groups/$f; \ done | grep PrimaryGroupID | sort -k2 -n
and to see all the user ids, this one liner can be used.
for f in `dscl . -list /Users`; do dscl . -read /Users/$f; \ done | grep UniqueID | sort -k2 -n
We create the group with
sudo dscl . -create /Groups/perforce sudo dscl . -create /Groups/perforce PrimaryGroupID 268 sudo dscl . -create /Groups/perforce Password '*'
and then we create the user with
sudo dscl . -create /Users/perforce sudo dscl . -create /Users/perforce UniqueID 268 sudo dscl . -create /Users/perforce UserShell /usr/bin/false sudo dscl . -create /Users/perforce RealName 'Perforce Server' sudo dscl . -create /Users/perforce NFSHomeDirectory /usr/local/var/perforce sudo dscl . -create /Users/perforce PrimaryGroupID 268 sudo dscl . -create /Users/perforce Password '*'
Then we create the log file and database directory
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/var/log sudo touch /usr/local/var/log/p4d.log sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/var/perforce
and set the ownership to the new user and group.
sudo chown perforce:perforce /usr/local/var/perforce sudo chown perforce:perforce /usr/local/var/log/p4d.log
Then we create the launch daemon description file.
sudo nano /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.perforce.plist
and add the following.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Debug</key> <false/> <key>Label</key> <string>com.perforce</string> <key>OnDemand</key> <false/> <key>Program</key> <string>/usr/local/sbin/p4d</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/usr/local/sbin/p4d</string> </array> <key>EnvironmentVariables</key> <dict> <key>P4LOG</key> <string>/usr/local/var/log/p4d.log</string> <key>P4PORT</key> <string>1666</string> <key>P4ROOT</key> <string>/usr/local/var/perforce/</string> <key>P4NAME</key> <string>Shinka</string> <key>P4DESCRIPTION</key> <string>Myrkraverk's Perforce</string> </dict> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>ServiceDescription</key> <string>Launches Perforce Server</string> <key>StartInterval</key> <integer>180</integer> <key>KeepAlive</key> <true/> <key>UserName</key> <string>perforce</string> <key>GroupName<key> <string>perforce</string> </dict> </plist> And finally, start the Helix Core service with sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.perforce.plist
we then issue
p4 set P4PORT=localhost:1666
and we test it with
p4 help
which outputs at the end
Server 2018.1/1637071.
so we know it's all working.
The steps to properly set up Helix Core with p4 protect
and so forth are left out of this guide; please see the administration guide from Perforce.
To use SSL for the connection, the P4PORT should start with ssl:
.
Compiling Sysbench on OS X Yosemite or Later
These instructions are applicable after cloning the git repository and generating the autoconfigure scripts.
git clone 'https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench.git' sysbench cd sysbench ./autogen.sh
In order to build Sysbench1 with PostgreSQL and MariaDB support, you need to make sure both mysql_config
and pg_config
are in your path.
I use Zsh, so this is my way of doing it, when both Postgres and MariaDB have been installed with MacPorts.
path=( /opt/local/lib/mariadb-10.1/bin /opt/local/lib/postgresql96/bin $path )
Then run
./configure --with-pgsql --with-mysql --prefix=/path/of/your/choice
You are likely to get an error like
ld: library not found for -lgcc_s.10.4
if you do not also
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.10
before running make
, while building the bundled LuaJit. This is documented in their installation instructions.
Of course, this isn’t taken care of by the wrapper Autotools, nor is there a configure flag to set this.
An alternative might be --with-system-luajit
but that depends on your situation.
Then you finish it off with make install
. Happy benchmarking.
1 I hope I’m linking to the right git repository.
Celebrate Jurassic Park with File System Visualizer on OS X
If you thought the 3D program in the original Jurassic Park movie was fake, you’re wrong. And you can install it on OS X. It’s called File System Visualizer (clone of the original 1992 SGI program, fsn) and has been around since 1999.
The music files in the video are from Obsidian Shell and available for personal use at Jamendo.
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